Camera system for recognising authorised persons

摘要

There are provided a authentication object pick up device including: a camera 3 for picking up a face image of a person to be authenticated; a camera 2 being pointed at a direction of an eye of the person obtained by analyzing the face image picked up by the camera 3, thereby picking up an eye image of the person; a camera 9 for picking up an image of a circumference of places in which the camera 3 and the camera 2 are disposed; and controller 14 for analyzing the image picked up by the camera 9 and starting an image pick-up operation of the camera 3 when detecting that the person enters a shooting range of the camera 3. Immediately when the person enters the shooting range, the image pick-up operation is started. Consequently, it is possible to shorten a time taken for acquiring an authentication object image.